Blades of Glory

2007
PG-13
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

6.3/10

180K

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Buddy Comedy Slapstick Comedy Sport

Two rival Olympic ice skaters, who have been permanently banned from the men's singles competition due to a feud, exploit a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.Two rival Olympic ice skaters, who have been permanently banned from the men's singles competition due to a feud, exploit a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.Two rival Olympic ice skaters, who have been permanently banned from the men's singles competition due to a feud, exploit a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

180K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

3,111

447

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 wins & 10 nominations total

Trivia
Actors Jon Heder and Will Ferrell both learned how to ice skate for this movie. They trained extensively with Michelle Kwan's coach, Sarah Kawahara.

Goofs
(at around 13 mins) When the two skaters are hauled before the committee after their fight on the dais, the Commissioner's title, prominently displayed on his desk, is misspelled as "Commisioner".

Quotes
Jimmy: So, Coach, I was thinking about the music for our routine.
Coach: Oh, really?
Chazz: We're gonna dance to one song, and one song only: "Lady Humps" by the Blackeyed Peas. "What you gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside your trunk? I'm a get you, get you drunk, get you drunk off my lady humps, my humps, my humps, my lovely lady humps."
Jimmy: [disgusted] I'm not skating to anything with references to lady humps. I don't even know what that means.
Chazz: No one knows what it means, but it's provocative...
Jimmy: No, it's not, it's gross...
Chazz: ...It gets the people going!

Crazy credits
During closing credits, Hector plays with Jimmy, Chazz, and Hector action figures.

Connections
Featured in HBO First Look: Blades of Glory (2007)

Soundtracks
Con te partirò
Written by Francesco Sartori & Lucio Quarantotto
Performed by Andrea Bocelli with Sarah Brightman
Courtesy of Unviersal Music B.V. (NL)
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

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Review

Featured review

8/10

This film actually warrants a sequel!

From the very first second I laid eyes on the absolutely hilarious poster for this film, in my neighborhood multiplex a few months ago, I knew with extreme certainty that I'd be seeing it the very first week it opened. Caught it on Wednesday and I'm here to say the movie most definitely delivers on the promise of the poster, big time.

Jon Heder finally gets a role he can have some fun with for a change (which hasn't really happened since Napoleon Dynamite), and he's superbly cast as the sheltered and phobic Jimmy MacElroy, the perfect foil for Ferrell's sex machine on skates, Chazz Michael Michaels. Ferrell is fast becoming more and more adept at portraying genuine characters in his movies, not merely hollow caricatures, and he is clearly in his element here.

The beginning of the movie, the set-up, is wonderfully written, and the over-the-top tone that's established in these opening scenes is successfully carried throughout. The energy level stays high, the plot never gets tedious or bogged down, and, best of all, the routines that the two of them perform together as partners are truly hilarious and original. I was left wanting more, and that speaks volumes.